I was particularly touched by your grandmother's description of "Jew" and and quoted in a response to one of my commentators.

"My grandmother, who survived Auschwitz, related to me that in concentration camp there were no sectors. No one spoke about irreligious Jews, traditional Jews, religious Jews, or ultra-Orthodox Jews. All experienced that hell together as one. The Nazis did not treat the Jews differently based on their sectors. They were all simply “Jews” – all bound by the same lot (an excerpt from Dov Lipman’s article, Why am running for Knesset with the Yesh Atid party, http://blogs.timesofisrael.com… knesset-with-the-yesh-atid-party/

Rabbi Lipman is an American haredi oleh and a Zionist and, as such, stands for an inclusive definition of Who is a Jew. We, in the apparent safety of our living rooms may sqabble over inclusion and exclusion. But in the eyes of the antisemite, a Jew is a Jew. And in the eyes of an antisemite with political power, “a Jew” includes those so defined in Nuremberg, 1935, as “mischlinge.”.

As yourself I blog on TOI, mostly US-Israel commentary. My main interest is, however, my JPost blog, Antisemitism and Jewish Survival, where I currently discuss the Leo Frank lynching in context to the history of American antisemitism. That article may be read at, http://blogs.jpost.com/content/foundations-holocaust-american-antisemitism-and-lynching-leo-max-frank.

I don't reside in Israel and so cannot vote in the election. I appreciate what you represent and am available to assist you any way possible.

David Turner

Though actually I would also say Lapid's ideas, vs. the man, are fair game. From what I've seen so far, he's a decent fellow. Have you watched his Kiryat Ono speech? It's really must see for anyone who wants to get some insight into him.

You have done good things so far from what I have seen, but joining Lapid is naive. You wil have ZERO influence on policy.